Steve

@gasman

active 4 days, 8 hours ago

Hi guys
Recently dug out an old vga projector which connects to my pc which can allow an image to be projected onto paper and then used to draw outline for a painting. My question – would this be seen as cheating?or is it any different to using say grids?
Regards
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Excellent replies folks just what I wanted 😀. Nice setup Jim think I could make one of those.I think maybe the Osmo won’t work in landscape because it needs the mirror to spin 90 degs! Perhaps a project for another day😉.

Thanks all for the pointers especially to Pete and Jim for mentioning the Camera Lucida app, never heard of that one before and looks easier to use than my vga projector. Just bought the app and will get the Osmo stand too!.

Thanks for that, maybe ‘cheating’ is a bit strong but hopefully you get where I’m coming from but maybe the purists among us would disagree 😀. I think Agathe’s suggestion that symmetry would be more accurate using tracing/projection especially for a beginner is a good one!.

Many thanks for your helpful reply Agathe much appreciated. I recently watched a YouTube on work by David Poxon and I really like David’s depiction of decay in everyday objects like doors, rooms etc which made me think about the padlock. Maybe a touch ambitious for a first go at watercolor as I’ve no idea how to make things look old and decayed…[Read more]

Tried a few times to post this but no luck so trying again. I recently took a photo of an old weathered door and using an old vga projector I projected it onto some paper – zoomed into the lock and did a rough drawing to paint later. Doing this the thought occured to me “Is this cheating?” or is it just like using grids or indeed does it…[Read more]

Hi guys
Recently dug out an old vga projector which connects to my pc which can allow an image to be projected onto paper and then used to draw outline for a painting. My question – would this be seen as cheating?or is it any different to using say grids?
Regards
Steve

Thanks again for the lovely welcome guys 😀!. Been looking on and off at the SAA offerings and finally took the plunge today and joined it to get my materials. Hope it’s ok to mention other sites on here Patrick please remove if not 😉.

Just back from a holiday in North Norfolk and while we were there I popped into Picturecraft at Holt and was admiring some work by Kieron Williamson the young genius painter I read about earlier, excellent work made for an enjoyable day oh….and I bought a few brushes…[Read more]

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